My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the importance of unique perspectives in creativity and artistry.
Robert Mapplethorpe emphasizes that his artistic endeavor focuses on presenting visual experiences in innovative ways. By advocating for a fresh viewpoint, he encourages both artists and viewers to challenge conventional perceptions and discover deeper meanings in what they see.
In practice
In a speech about artistic innovation, one might say, 'As Robert Mapplethorpe once said, my work is about seeing things like they haven't been seen before.'
I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking photographs and suddenly know that you have resources from having looked at a lot of them before. There is no way you can avoid this. But this kind of subconscious influence is good, and it certainly can work for one. In fact, the more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
You don't have to know anything about a subject as long as you use common sense and imagination, plus enthusiasm! I use all periods of design in my work, for, after all, decorative styles are simply indications of a manner of living.
Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities β thought, feeling, will β to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.
For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.
Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.
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